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ECCLESIASTICAL ORGANIZATION
In March, following the arrival of the pioneers, George A. Smith, one of the Authorities of the Latter-Day Saint Church and provisional leader of the Southern Colonies, en route from Parowan to Salt Lake City to attend the General Conference, camped with the little colony on the banks of the Beaver River, and proceeded to organize them into a branch of the Parowan Ward. Simeon F. Howd was made Presiding Elder of the Branch, with Edward W. Thompson as clerk.
During the summer following, their numbers were greatly augmented by the arrival of several groups of families from Parowan and Cedar City. By September, a full set of officers was installed, presumably by proclamation of the Governor of the Territory. During the year, the people planted their crops and had a bounteous harvest, but were not united under the leadership of their presiding officers. To overcome this undesirable situation, President Brigham Young took matters in hand and drafted Philo T. Farnsworth, then residing in Fillmore, to move to Beaver and become the Bishop of Beaver Ward. Elder Farnsworth reached Beaver the latter part of December, 1856, and was duly installed as Bishop with proper and fitting ceremony.
The year 1857 registered a community of one hundred souls, and in 1858 they erected a double log meeting house large enough to seat 100 persons. In the center of "Plat A" was a block set apart as the Public Square, designated for Church purposes, and it was here the first little church stood, just west of where the Public Library now stands.
On November 5, 1859, further work of Church organization was advanced by organizing the High Priest

ECCLESIASTICAL ORGANIZATION
In March, following the arrival of the pioneers, George A. Smith, one of the Authorities of the Latter-Day Saint Church and provisional leader of the Southern Colonies, en route from Parowan to Salt Lake City to attend the General Conference, camped with the little colony on the banks of the Beaver River, and proceeded to organize them into a branch of the Parowan Ward. Simeon F. Howd was made Presiding Elder of the Branch, with Edward W. Thompson as clerk.
During the summer following, their numbers were greatly augmented by the arrival of several groups of families from Parowan and Cedar City. By September, a full set of officers was installed, presumably by proclamation of the Governor of the Territory. During the year, the people planted their crops and had a bounteous harvest, but were not united under the leadership of their presiding officers. To overcome this undesirable situation, President Brigham Young took matters in hand and drafted Philo T. Farnsworth, then residing in Fillmore, to move to Beaver and become the Bishop of Beaver Ward. Elder Farnsworth reached Beaver the latter part of December, 1856, and was duly installed as Bishop with proper and fitting ceremony.
The year 1857 registered a community of one hundred souls, and in 1858 they erected a double log meeting house large enough to seat 100 persons. In the center of "Plat A" was a block set apart as the Public Square, designated for Church purposes, and it was here the first little church stood, just west of where the Public Library now stands.
On November 5, 1859, further work of Church organization was advanced by organizing the High Priest